🐧💻 Linux devs start removing support for 37-year-old Intel 486 CPU

Linux creator Linus Torvalds said that there was "zero real reason" to continue support for the 486 CPU — it can be detrimental to upstream Linux kernel development efforts. The first examples were released in 1989, and modern Linux distros continue to grow more resource-hungry.

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⚔️ OpenAI calls for investigation into Musk by California, Delaware

OpenAI urged the attorneys general of California and Delaware to investigate potential “improper and anti-competitive behavior” by Elon Musk in his efforts to block OpenAI from restructuring as a for-profit company.

“Musk has repeatedly attempted – and failed – to wrest control of the nonprofit for his personal gain in a bid to take control over the future of AI,” — Jason Kwon, chief strategy officer at OpenAI, said in a letter to both state officials.

Jason Kwon also alleged that Musk has been working to undermine OpenAI through various “attacks” on the company, including by working with Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg. Jury selection for the trial is slated to begin on April 27, in the Northern District of California.

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🌐 Google adds mental health tools to Gemini chatbot after lawsuit

Google plans to introduce new mental health support features for its Gemini chatbot as the company and rivals, like OpenAI, have faced several lawsuits accusing their AI tools of leading to harm. Gemini will add an interface directing chatbot users to a support hotline when the conversation indicates “a potential crisis related to suicide or self-harm.”

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🤝 Intel announced plans to join Tesla's TeraFab project, aiming to deliver 1 TW of compute capacity per year

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💊 Scientists create healing gel that could stop chronic wounds from turning deadly

Injuries that remain unhealed for more than a month are classified as chronic wounds. Globally, about 12 million people are affected each year, including roughly 4.5 million in the US. Among these patients, approximately one in five eventually undergoes amputation, highlighting the seriousness of the condition.

Researchers at UC Riverside have created a new oxygen-delivering gel designed to help these injuries heal before they progress to limb loss. This gel adjusts to the exact shape of the wound, reaching into small gaps where oxygen is typically lowest, and infection risk is highest. Before it solidifies, it molds closely to the contours of the injured tissue. The team’s strategy to counter hypoxia using a gel is described in Nature Communications Materials.

Experiments using diabetic and older mice, which develop wounds similar to those seen in older adults, showed striking results — wounds closed in about 23 days, and the animals survived. This innovation represents a chance to reduce amputations, improve quality of life, and give the body what it needs to heal itself.

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⚡ FDIC approves proposal to implement GENIUS Act requirements and standards

The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors today approved a notice of proposed rulemaking that would implement certain requirements and standards under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (GENIUS Act). The proposed rule would establish a prudential framework for FDIC-supervised permitted payment stablecoins issuers, including requirements related to reserve assets, redemption, capital, and risk management standards.

The proposed rule would also establish requirements for FDIC-supervised permitted payment stablecoin issuers and insured depository institutions (IDIs) that provide certain payment stablecoin related custodial and safekeeping services.

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🆕 Anthropic debuts preview of powerful new AI model Mythos in new cybersecurity initiative

Anthropic released a preview of its new frontier model, Mythos, a more powerful, unreleased AI model to help prepare for possible cyberattacks. Mythos is a general-purpose model for Anthropic’s Claude AI systems that the company claims has strong agentic coding and reasoning skills. Over the past few weeks, Mythos identified “thousands of zero-day vulnerabilities, many of them critical.” Many of the vulnerabilities are one to two decades old.

The model’s limited debut is part of a new security initiative, dubbed Project Glasswing. Anthropic is forming an initiative called Project Glasswing with Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco Systems. The companies will get access to Mythos to hunt for flaws in their products and share findings with industry peers.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇨🇳 Russia and China Veto Proposed U.N. Resolution to Open the Strait of Hormuz

Russia and China vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council that called for countries to cooperate in taking defensive action to open the Strait of Hormuz. The move effectively blocked U.N. authorization for the use of military force to address the maritime crisis. The resolution received 11 votes in favor, two votes against and two abstentions.

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🤑 Crypto Regulation in Africa: What's Changing in 2026 ⁉️

Against this backdrop of rapid regulatory progress, Ripple is providing the critical crypto solutions needed to power Africa’s expanding digital economy. 2026 is shaping up to be a watershed year for several African jurisdictions who have taken a lead in developing local digital assets regulation.

✔️ Ripple’s stablecoin, RLUSD, provides businesses and communities with a stablecoin purpose-built for trust, compliance and utility:

➠ From a collaboration with Mercy Corps Ventures in Kenya to improve the speed and transparency of aid delivery, to three partnerships with Chipper Cash, VALR and Yellow Card that expand institutional access, RLUSD has seen strong demand across Africa.

Today, roughly eight African countries have implemented some form of crypto-specific regulation, with additional jurisdictions working toward formal frameworks. These initiatives typically focus on licensing digital asset service providers, strengthening anti-money laundering (AML) requirements and establishing consumer protection standards.

🔝 Africa leads the charge on mobile money and payments, responsible for 70% of the world’s $1 trillion mobile money market. Nigeria and Ethiopia both ranked among the Top 15 countries in the 2025 Global Crypto Adoption Index. And, between July 2024 and June 2025, Sub-Saharan Africa received more than $205 billion in onchain value.

Africa remains one of the world’s most compelling regions for digital asset adoption and momentum. As the continent’s regulatory frameworks mature, its next phase of growth will be defined by investments in infrastructure, greater institutional participation and a deeper integration of digital assets into its financial systems.

Clear regulation enables innovation. 🔄

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⚡️ Trump: "I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks."

"We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated," — Trump said in a post on Truth Social.

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🐈 Hero cat saves owner as PC starts burning from NVIDIA RTX 4090 meltdown

A PC owner has credited their cat with saving them from a dangerous situation after their NVIDIA RTX 4090 began to melt and smoke while unattended. The incident started when the user stepped away from their computer, only to hear their cat meowing unusually loudly from another room.

When they returned, they discovered smoke coming from their PC along with a strong burning smell, caused by a melted GPU power connector. The owner quickly unplugged the system to prevent further damage after noticing the PC wouldn’t shut down normally, potentially avoiding a more serious fire.

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🚘 World’s oldest BMW plant to become EV-only hub with AI, robots and digital twins

The 104-year-old assembly plant in Munich, in Bavaria, Germany, will become the first existing BMW site to produce exclusively all-electric vehicles by 2027. The facility is currently undergoing a massive USD 750 million overhaul to support the production and rollout of the BMW i3 all-electric sedan, the second model in the Neue Klasse range, from August 2026.

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🇺🇸 Wisconsin town revolts against a data center project

The vote in Port Washington appears to be the first time any U.S. municipality will go to the ballot to kneecap data center development. At least three other U.S. cities are gearing up for referendums of their own this year.

“None of us are specifically anti-development,”— said Carri Prom, co-founder of the nonprofit Great Lakes Neighbors United. “We’re not even really anti-tech. It’s just that we want responsible development, and we want responsible tech moving forward.”

The referendum won’t actually derail the proposed $15 billion, 1.3-gigawatt data center campus from OpenAI and Oracle, one of multiple “Stargate” AI infrastructure megaprojects. Rather, it would allow residents to potentially obstruct future projects by requiring city leaders to obtain voter approval before awarding developers lucrative tax incentives.

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💬 X is rolling out automatic translation and photo editing powered by Grok

X is now rolling out a new feature that automatically translates posts. The company is also launching a new photo editor with the ability to modify images through natural language posts. Both features are powered by xAI’s Grok models.

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🇪🇨 Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa says US troops could help confront drug gangs and address the security crisis in his nation, provided they follow the lead of local armed forces

“It’s not an invasion, it’s actually international collaboration against crime,” — Noboa said.

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🇭🇺🇷🇺 Hungary and Russia struck 12-point plan for closer ties and signed a secret deal

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó and Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko signed a 12-point plan laying out areas of cooperation after talks in Moscow in December. The documents, which haven't previously been made public, show how close Budapest and Moscow hope to become.

Key point — a commitment to “reverse the negative trend in bilateral trade” after the transfer of goods fell as a result of the EU’s sanctions on Russia. The agreement opens the door to Russian companies breaking ground on new electricity and hydrogen projects in Hungary and closer cooperation on oil, gas and nuclear fuel. The deal also sets out the cooperation in areas as education (opening up exchange programs for graduate students), sport, industry, health care, agriculture, construction.

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⚡️ Trump will discuss whether to leave NATO when he meets with the alliance’s secretary general, Mark Rutte, later Wednesday.

"It's something the President will be discussing in a couple of hours...Perhaps you'll hear directly from the President!" — Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said.

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♾ Meta debuts the Muse Spark model in a ‘ground-up overhaul’ of its AI

Meta released an AI model called Muse Spark — the first in the Muse family of models developed by Meta Superintelligence Labs. It's available today at meta.ai and the Meta AI app.

One major application is to help people learn about and improve their health. Muse Spark can generate interactive displays that unpack and explain health information such as the nutritional content of various foods or muscles activated during exercise. AI model also performs well with visual STEM questions which can lead to “interactive experiences like creating fun minigames or troubleshooting your home appliances.”

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